2022 Most Popular Bachelor's Degree Colleges for Geography in New Mexico

Geography is of the hottest bachelor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #96 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

For its 2022 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in New Mexico to determine which ones were the most popular for geography students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 32 bachelor's degrees in geography to qualified students.

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We have also developed a number of other rankings to help guide you in your decision-making process. To begin with, if this is not the degree level you are most interested in, you may want to check out one of the others noted above. If you would prefer to limit your search to a specific state or region of the county, see our rankings by location. On top of that, you can visit our other rankings for geography.

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Most Popular Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Geography in New Mexico

Below you'll see a list of the most popular colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in geography.

Most Well Attended Schools for Geography Students Working on Their Bachelor's

1

University of New Mexico - Main Campus
Albuquerque, NM

23 Annual Bachelor's Degrees

#1 Best Quality In NM

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

You'll be surrounded by many like-minded peers at University of New Mexico - Main Campus if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in geography. UNM is a fairly large public university located in the city of Albuquerque. This isn't the only ranking where the school placed. It's also #1 in quality for bachelor's degrees in geography in New Mexico. More information about a bachelor’s in geography from University of New Mexico - Main Campus

2

New Mexico State University - Main Campus
Las Cruces, NM

9 Annual Bachelor's Degrees

#2 Best Quality In NM

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

You'll be surrounded by many like-minded peers at New Mexico State University - Main Campus if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in geography. NMSU Main Campus is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Las Cruces. This isn't the only ranking where the school placed. It's also #2 in quality for bachelor's degrees in geography in New Mexico. More information about a bachelor’s in geography from New Mexico State University - Main Campus

Best Geography Colleges in the Southwest Region

Explore all the Most Popular Geography Colleges in the Southwest Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Texas	544	249
Oklahoma	390	25
Arizona	342	130

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Rankings in Majors Related to Geography

One of 2 majors within the Geography & Cartography area of study, Geography has other similar majors worth exploring.

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Couleur. More about our data sources and methodologies.